The funniest reactions to Facebook going down today

We're aware that some people are now having trouble accessing Facebook.

The social-media giant reports an outage impacting much of the USA, including nearly all of the east coast.

Those without service were seeing the message: "Sorry, something went wrong".

This error message popped up when we tried to get on Facebook.

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In addition to the North American outages, there were also reports of Facebook outages in portions of South America.

Many people used social-media websites like Twitter to report the outage.

There was no immediate word from the social media giant about the outage, which began shortly before 1 p.m. ET. An outage has just hit Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Oculus, with WhatsApp's functionality affected as well.